BMC Time Machine TT02 Track

thanks dude.

yeah thanks man, it did cost a bit, but i built it over quite a while so it never really hit me that hard. by full custom, do you mean i should have had a frame specially made?

Yeah, have someone build something to your exact dimensions/specs. Maybe one of these folks: http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/category/nahbs-2010/2010-exhibitors/ :-)

yeah i thought about it but that will have to be another project, this one i just kind of got carried away with the time trial look. theres a great frame builder near by actually, famous in melbourne, check out his stuff: http://www.gelliecustombikeframes.com.au/
i would love to learn to build my own frame.

Those are nice.. I'd go with a geekhouse if I had the cash. And at some point I'd love to apprentice to one of the great builders, learn fillet brazing, maybe titanium smithing.

yeah geekhouse have some really nice shapes down. but for my next, if it ever happens i really want thin steel tubing, classic geomotry, as a road bike. just clear coated steel looks great too. but who knows, theres heaps stuff im interested in. will you ever build up a dream bike, possibly a custom geekhouse? or not worth spending so much on a bike, like i have?

Oh I definitely want a custom, but thats a looooong ways off, or if I prove that competitive cycling is more than just a hobby. Actually, speaking of raw, I'd definitely like to have a Geekhouse mudville (their cross bike) thats been polished then powdercoated clear. I think that'd be all kinds of sick. And a Lynskey Helix. And maybe an Engin fixie.

well if it ever happens let me know. id go the lynskey helix, thats a nice bike and titanium is the best.

They'll all go up on velospace when and if I ever get that kind of cash

my friends at a local bike shop have tested out different types of chainrings with tensile testing machines (engineers) and they've assured me that they are actually very strong. i was a little concerned at first but now riding it, it actually feels very stiff, very secure. im use to not having a brake so i havnt really been using this one. but i dont want to risk crashing this bike, hence the brake. and i cant get it insured without one.

I like how you put "(engineers)" after talking about a tensile strength testing machine. I've worked with one before and I don't need you to inform me of what its used for. Your bike needs gears for one reason, because thats what the frame was designed for(whether it goes on the track or not). You abviously don't know shit about bikes, because you are running 42-16 on a BMC Time machine. I'm assuming you wanted those wheels for their weight and aero design. Well let me inform you of something, you won't even be able to take advantage of the aero design unless you are pushing 170 rpm, because that's how fast you are going to have to spin your cranks to get up to 35 mph. By that time your ass will be bouncing on the seat and you will eat pavement. Have fun and enjoy your overpriced epic fail. Thanks for playing!

because this is a proper setup: http://velospace.org/node/18559

thanks dude,
i gave up on the corimas, couldnt convert it. ill just hang onto them till i want a road bike i guess. ill upload photos of it finished soon...... hopefully. i need to take some first.

tomorrow, theyll be up.
just finished yesterday, its so cool.

umm why would someone who rides fixed gear bikes start whinging about the impracticalities of my bike. dont know if youve forgotten but fixed gear bikes are actually made for the track, not the streets. fixies in general are completely impractical. Its for fun not having the most pure set up track bike there ever was. how boring. and ive ridden tubs on a fixie before, they perform better than clinchers, these go to 200psi, are 320 tpi and take 2 mins to change over if i get a puncture. i find it much easier.

It gets annoying when people call it a fixie. It makes you sound like a tool and a fag.

my words exactly!!!

probably not

thanks dude, glad you enjoy my work. ill enjoy ripping it past these haters in the streets.

Everything that people have said about your bike is true, not to mention not everyone who says something negative doesn't just ride their bike. This bike just looks like your spoiled out the ass and have nothing better to do

what your saying is you cant ride nice parts. i couldnt care less what you think of me, and im glad that at least this bike is getting so much attention, i just think its sad how fukin cool you all are.

yeah isaid in the notes, im still awaiting a few parts, its down to just the cog now, but the back wheel might change, spacing complications! ill upload pictures in a couple of weeks when its completed, i rode it as a single speed just to get a feel of what its like but thats it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, i just checked out your bike.
can anyone who comes accross this please note my boy thomas here says:
"you saw all this shit on velospace, reading hipster blogs, or fucking ebay"
DUDE! your riding a fuckin cannondale on an aerospoke with a velocity, spoke cards, risers and a whole lot of other shit straight off the shelf at your local inner city bike store. who are you to say jack shit about my bike, your riding the exact same fuckin fixie as the other 30 million 15 year olds out there. maybe you should get off the "hipster bike blogs" yourself!!

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OH YEAH!!!! Gaint bowery beats cannondale anyday!!!!

ive ridden bikes as long as i can remember, my uncle was a professional road racer and he got me into road riding when i was young, ive owned many bikes none this good. ive built this up over a year and a half, youll see ive only been a member of velospace for a couple of months. how is any of this "hipster" i have a bmc frame, how many of those do you see? i have corimas, ive never seen them on a bike before. and ive changed high end road bike parts to suit a fixed gear, given the fact i was brought up around road bike parts. This bike really couldnt be any more unusual or custom. how am i following any trend other than possibly riding a fixed gear? you seem to be following a much greater trend yourself.... hating on them!

get fuked if your not gonna give any constructive critisism

m an stfu with that, this is an open forum, if someone has an opinion they are free to write what they want, stfu with your get fucked shit,

no shit everyone "just rides" "just ride your bike" i hate people who say that shit, its like anyone who rides a carbon frame that was meant to be raced is not in the game to "just ride" it doesn't make sense. He's runnign integrated risers... to save weight?... for racing? It's just such a fucking atrocity, does this thing not hurt your eyyes?

their not risers.
thats all.

I am aware that this is an open forum, but this is a matter of common courtesy, wern't you taught to play nice in the playground?

And to be honest, i really dont think that it looks like an atrocity, it looks and by no means does it hurt my eyes. It is something new and original and a great unique looking bike.

basically i built the bike with all the parts ive always wanted. ive had so many others and i never quite love them so this is it, i saved for ages, im only 19, everyone here seems to think im like a 40 year old billionaire. and i just prefer the look of a fixed gear, i know like everyone is saying it wont actually be any good on the track, but i dont race. i just love bikes and i think ive made a particularly good looking one. as for not being comfortable whoever said that, its actually fine, it had to be im going on a big ride at the end of the year over about 700 miles. and hopefully no one will try smash me off it, Melbourne is pretty safe and i dont think ill be locking it up anywhere. p.s. everyone on velospace is so boring, whats wrong with experimenting with bikes and doing something interesting. this bike has rear entry dropouts why not set it up fixed, they look cleaner than road bikes. i understand we all have different tastes and i expected criticism but everyone is just hating, what is wrong with you people, if this was a 500 dollar project on a piece of shit tt bike converted to fixed, id get like 2 comments, as soon as you people see someone has put time and money into their bike and it shits on your own, the critisisms come out. thankyou to the something like 3 people who actually have something good to say.

Hey. I dont mean to seem to negative about your bike. Like I said at the end, all jokes aside, I think it is interesting what you did with the bike. You had a goal in mind and you were able to turn an idea into a concrete project. It doesnt matter how old you are or how you payed for the bike. We all on velospace seem to spend money on ridiculous things for our bikes, some less extravagant them others. I probably have the shittiest frame on this website and got a decent fork, pedals and wheels for it, all of which ended up costing me more than what I originally payed for the stupid bowery. Its like people putting 20 thousand dollar rims on a shitty 1500 dollar cadillacs. And I am sorry I couldnt keep my mexico comments to myself. I had the opportunity to react to a new populist measure the mayor of the city carried out. And people rob bikes and cops are crooked in any fucking city, not just third world cities,. I have been run over and had bike parts stolen from me in DC and Chicago as well. Even in the suburbs. People just dont ride bikes here, and cops really do talk on their cell phones all day.

Again, congratulations on your build. Just imagine what people would have said if you put two aerospokes and risers on it. And if I was able to post pictures of my shitty bike, I would accept everyones criticisms for my putting pirated deep v´s on it.

i wasnt specifically having a go at you, its just your comment was at the top and that way i could write something to everybody, i appreciate your comments. its a shame you cant ride the bike you want without being robbed, i didnt mind those original comments at all. thankyou.

I just didnt like people calling mexico city a shithole when it is actually a dynamic and versatile city that represents the problems and promise of all cities in the world, some more exagerrated then others. Im trying to start a cycling revolution here. I am going to send a personal email to Mash SF and see if they will partake in the last sunday of every month 25 km bike ride through the city, post the video on youtube, and make giant bowerys the most demanded bike on the market.

Hope you get the rest of your parts soon. If you have any money left over please invest it in my giant bowery

no specifically trying to be an idiot, but you make the claim that you earned the money for this bike after long hard hours of work. From what I see, it's not logistically sound that you would make a bike like this unless it was: 1. bought for you, 2. your absurdly well paid at whatever job you have that still takes long hard hours.

Nobody is like, ok I'm gonna save up for a sweet fixie, my dream is a bmc time trial frame with corima mags and a red crankset with 1 chainring. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to me.

i'm so confused by this bike

haha oh well. i love this bike, why doesnt that make sense. i worked over a long period of time, saved. then slowly started to buy the parts you see before you. and i dont feel as though because this is a tt frame or whatever you and a couple of others are saying, that it has to be used as one, who cares! its a bike! it works! i like it! it looks cool (At least to me)!

+1

yeah i know, but i cant find a nice little carbon lever that fits flats, thought someone might of. it weighs about 5.5kg. thanks for your comments.

they're not carbon, but paul levers are about the nicest levers around

hahahahaha, i sleep happy about 2 meters from that monster. i love these responses. i built this to mock road bikes not be one.

Why do road bikes get/deserve to be mocked? not to mention this is a tt, not a roadie, I mean if you have the money more power to you

I gather he means mock in the sense of imitating, not ridiculing.